Many people including some people working in an Internet security products company is unable to identify the SPAM emails. I got this spam email forwarded to me from one of my friends who himself is working for a software company:
Subject: FW: FW: FW: Please Read and Froward it!!
Dear Reader,
I am writing this behalf of my loving husband.
Everything was fine, me, my husband and our two children. We had a happy family. My husband was an Engineer in a big company. He comes home early and helps me with the house chores and plays with the children.
Our dreams were shattered in front of our eyes last week. It was a drunken lorry driver, came on the wrong side and hit us and went.
It killed my little baby girl and left my husband paralyzed. My husband is still in the hospital. His brain is damaged and he needs an operation. I need 5 lakhs s to save his life. I collected about 3 lakhs from my friends and family. I need another 2 lakhs.
I don't want to lose him. He was such a wonderful husband & father. He still doesn't know we lost our little girl. I am looking after my son now. Without my husband I won't be able to take care of him.
Please help me save my husband the one person I dearly love. I already lost my daughter and I don't want to lose my husband as well. Please help us.
Thank you very much for your love & support. May God bless you.
Yours Truly,
Nirosha Silva
(I know you don't like to forward mails. I am really sorry to bother you. If you have a heart and like to help a family, please forward this mail. Every mail you forward will add 5cents to AOL and they will deposit it to my bank account. This will help me save my husband.)
////////////////// Points to be noted here. ////////////////////////////////
1.) In the subject the Mail Server itself shows that its a SPAM
2.) The Content
3.) IT states "Every mail you forward will add 5cents to AOL", Here note that there is no Track Back url.
4.) If any service provider wants to pay for this kind of activities they might get a small space for donation in their website.
Note: If you are going to make a donation online, see if that the website is a legitimate one.
Also you might have noted and experienced as well that you would get money if you forward this mail to 100 people etc and so on. So inorder to do this the SPAMMERS they use the reputed companies name like Microsoft Corporation, AOL and so on. Also sometimes it comes with some attachments which might be a virus file.
Though there are Spam Blockers installed in the system, people anyway manage to get thest kinds of email and forward it to their friends in their contact list.
Monday, January 01, 2007
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
WMP 11 vs Winamp 5.3 vs iTunes 7.0.2
Memory Usage:
WMP - 8776k
iTunes - 43368k
Winamp - 7264k
Playing song
WMP - 21328k
iTunes - 45772k
Winamp - 23114k
WMP + 1
—————————————-
First Run:
WMP - Very quick. Very simple. It sets up and scans your library within 10 minutes or at least on my machine.
iTunes - Slow. To finish installsion it took about 10 minutes then to finish all its initial scans took another 15 almost.
Winamp. As as WMP. Done everything in about 10 minutes.
WMP/Winamp + 0.5
—————————————-
Plugins:
WMP - Has a good number of plugins ranging from visual to effects to codecs.
iTunes - Very very slime pickings for plugins. Mostly visual.
Winamp - A large community of developers. 100’s of them.
Winamp +1
—————————————-
Skins :
WMP - Has a selection. Not a good selection but a selection none the less.
iTunes - SUCKS FOR SKINNING! There are a handful of skins and all they do is change the color.
Winamp - A huge number of skins! Many are great and can totally change the way you use the program.
Winamp +1
—————————————-
HotKeys
WMP - Can’t add custom keys but will use the media controls on your keyboard
iTunes - Will also use the media controls on your keyboard, but only when the program is in focus!
Winamp - Uses media keys plus allows the creation of custom keys.
Winamp +1
—————————————-
Sharing Media
WMP/iTunes - Both simple to use and share.
Winamp - Can only do it with a plugin and even then its horrible.
WMP/iTunes - 0.5
—————————————-
Playlists:
WMP - Handles them nicely. Very simple. Allows you to save them in several different formats.
iTunes - Can only save it in the single format iTunes uses. Not as nicely done as WMP or WA
Winamp - Very simple, just like WMP. It also allows your to save them out in a few different forms.
WMP/WA + 0.5
—————————————-
Video:
They all suck. Get VLC or MPlayer.
—————————————-
Layout:
WMP - This is hot. The default skin for WMP 11 is beautiful. I love it. Also the way the library is handle is very different from WA or iT. You can sort the music much like in WA or iT but unlike them which just reorders the list, WMP gives you a totally different view. I don’t know if this is a good thing. I suppose they were trying to set themselves apart from the rest of the field and they did exactly that. I personally really really like it.It actually makes it worth having all that album art!
Album view
Song view
iTunes - It works. Its simple, but I don’t care for it. Its too simple. The default nav is just to blah, but the new views they’ve added are nice (almost exactly like WMP :O ) but don’t work very well due to the stupid bottom bar and the ugly header bar that just can’t be hidden.
WinAmp - The layout of the program is really good in my opinion. You can move the separate parts anywhere you want, hide parts you don’t need, and its very clean and simple with enough options in the open that you don’t need to dig through menus to get at everything.
My layout
WMP/Winamp + 0.5
—————————————-
Final Scores:
WMP - 4
iTunes - 0.5
Winamp - 4.5
—————————————-
Overview
WMP 11 is very good. A HUGE improvement. And even though Winamp has more points (only 0.5!) I would recommend trying WMP 11. If it suits your personal taste go for it! It is just as good if not better if you ignore the skins and plugins. I am personally going to continue to us both winamp and WMP 11 for the next week or soon until I figure out which I like more. I though doing this test would put both programs through enough hoops that one would walk out on top, but alas, no.
As for iTunes, the ONLY reason I can see anyone using this program is that they are too set in their ways already, have an iPod or are just to lazy to get winamp with the ipod plugin :P (which I image/hope will be out for WMP soon)
So I came in using Winamp and am walking away using Winamp and WMP until I can settle on one. I hope this helps everyone that reads it find the media player of your choice.
WMP - 8776k
iTunes - 43368k
Winamp - 7264k
Playing song
WMP - 21328k
iTunes - 45772k
Winamp - 23114k
WMP + 1
—————————————-
First Run:
WMP - Very quick. Very simple. It sets up and scans your library within 10 minutes or at least on my machine.
iTunes - Slow. To finish installsion it took about 10 minutes then to finish all its initial scans took another 15 almost.
Winamp. As as WMP. Done everything in about 10 minutes.
WMP/Winamp + 0.5
—————————————-
Plugins:
WMP - Has a good number of plugins ranging from visual to effects to codecs.
iTunes - Very very slime pickings for plugins. Mostly visual.
Winamp - A large community of developers. 100’s of them.
Winamp +1
—————————————-
Skins :
WMP - Has a selection. Not a good selection but a selection none the less.
iTunes - SUCKS FOR SKINNING! There are a handful of skins and all they do is change the color.
Winamp - A huge number of skins! Many are great and can totally change the way you use the program.
Winamp +1
—————————————-
HotKeys
WMP - Can’t add custom keys but will use the media controls on your keyboard
iTunes - Will also use the media controls on your keyboard, but only when the program is in focus!
Winamp - Uses media keys plus allows the creation of custom keys.
Winamp +1
—————————————-
Sharing Media
WMP/iTunes - Both simple to use and share.
Winamp - Can only do it with a plugin and even then its horrible.
WMP/iTunes - 0.5
—————————————-
Playlists:
WMP - Handles them nicely. Very simple. Allows you to save them in several different formats.
iTunes - Can only save it in the single format iTunes uses. Not as nicely done as WMP or WA
Winamp - Very simple, just like WMP. It also allows your to save them out in a few different forms.
WMP/WA + 0.5
—————————————-
Video:
They all suck. Get VLC or MPlayer.
—————————————-
Layout:
WMP - This is hot. The default skin for WMP 11 is beautiful. I love it. Also the way the library is handle is very different from WA or iT. You can sort the music much like in WA or iT but unlike them which just reorders the list, WMP gives you a totally different view. I don’t know if this is a good thing. I suppose they were trying to set themselves apart from the rest of the field and they did exactly that. I personally really really like it.It actually makes it worth having all that album art!
Album view
Song view
iTunes - It works. Its simple, but I don’t care for it. Its too simple. The default nav is just to blah, but the new views they’ve added are nice (almost exactly like WMP :O ) but don’t work very well due to the stupid bottom bar and the ugly header bar that just can’t be hidden.
WinAmp - The layout of the program is really good in my opinion. You can move the separate parts anywhere you want, hide parts you don’t need, and its very clean and simple with enough options in the open that you don’t need to dig through menus to get at everything.
My layout
WMP/Winamp + 0.5
—————————————-
Final Scores:
WMP - 4
iTunes - 0.5
Winamp - 4.5
—————————————-
Overview
WMP 11 is very good. A HUGE improvement. And even though Winamp has more points (only 0.5!) I would recommend trying WMP 11. If it suits your personal taste go for it! It is just as good if not better if you ignore the skins and plugins. I am personally going to continue to us both winamp and WMP 11 for the next week or soon until I figure out which I like more. I though doing this test would put both programs through enough hoops that one would walk out on top, but alas, no.
As for iTunes, the ONLY reason I can see anyone using this program is that they are too set in their ways already, have an iPod or are just to lazy to get winamp with the ipod plugin :P (which I image/hope will be out for WMP soon)
So I came in using Winamp and am walking away using Winamp and WMP until I can settle on one. I hope this helps everyone that reads it find the media player of your choice.
Monday, December 11, 2006
DADDY! HOW WAS I BORN
"DADDY! HOW WAS I BORN?" Junior asks his dad,
His dad, who is a software engineer sighs and replies,
"Ah, my son, I guess one day you would have to find out anyway!"
"Well, I saw your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN.
Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a
cyber-cafe.
We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a
download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered
that neither one of us had used a firewall, but it was too late to hit the
delete button."
"Six weeks later your mom sent me an instant message saying that her
operating system was showing signs of unauthorized program activity
from a self extracting file which had implanted in her BIOS.
Then nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared and said:
You've Got Male!"
His dad, who is a software engineer sighs and replies,
"Ah, my son, I guess one day you would have to find out anyway!"
"Well, I saw your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on MSN.
Then I set up a date via e-mail with your mom and we met at a
cyber-cafe.
We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a
download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered
that neither one of us had used a firewall, but it was too late to hit the
delete button."
"Six weeks later your mom sent me an instant message saying that her
operating system was showing signs of unauthorized program activity
from a self extracting file which had implanted in her BIOS.
Then nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared and said:
You've Got Male!"
Monday, December 04, 2006
Sunday, December 03, 2006
Jobs That Pay the Most
Here is a reasonable top ten (and top 20) list:
- Surgeons: $65.89/hr; $137,050/yr
- Obstetricians and gynecologists: $64.15/hr; $133,430/yr
- Anesthesiologists: $63.31/hr; $131,680/yr
- Internists, general: $61.03/hr; $126,940/yr
- Pediatricians, general: $56.03/hr; $116,550/yr
- Psychiatrists: $54.60/hr; $113,570/yr
- Dentists: $53.28/hr; $110,820/yr
- Family and general practitioners: $52.89/hr; $110,020/yr
- Chief Executives: $51.77/hr; $107,670/yr
- Airline pilots, copilots and flight engineers: (N/A); $99,400/yr
- Podiatrists: $45.43/hr; $94,500/yr
- Lawyers: $44.19/hr; $91,920/yr
- Optometrists: $42.35/hr; $88,100/yr
- Computer and information systems managers: $40.33/hr; $83,890/yr
- Physicists: $40.26/hr; $83,750/yr
- Air traffic controllers: $40.07/hr; $83,350/yr
- Petroleum Engineers: $39.33/hr; $81,800/yr
- Nuclear Engineers: $38.56/hr; $80,200/yr
- Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates: $38.24/hr; $79,540/yr
- Marketing Managers: $37.70/hr; $78,410
1st Job at Virtusa
Well now i'm a Virtusan.
Virtusan means Excellence for those who don't know the meaning.
Virtusan means Excellence for those who don't know the meaning.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
FIX YOU
When you try your best but you don't succeed
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream, down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And I..
Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down on your face
And I..
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.
When you get what you want but not what you need
When you feel so tired but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse.
And the tears come streaming down your face
When you lose something you can't replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you
Tears stream, down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And I..
Tears stream, down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down on your face
And I..
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you.
http://bash.org/?202477
(Mootar) morons.
(Mootar) these people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless
(Mootar) they must think they're super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network
(Mootar) unfortunatly, the connection works both ways
(Mootar) long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer
(Mootar) these people who live in my apartment complex are connected to my wireless
(Mootar) they must think they're super-cool hackers by breaking into my completely unsecure network
(Mootar) unfortunatly, the connection works both ways
(Mootar) long story short, they now have loads of horse porn on their computer
http://bash.org/?369
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Friday 15th September (BIG Picture)
Didn’t sleep at all, was pasting the CD covers and preparing my Vote of thanks. Around 6.45AM have to rush to the TLC to pick a Slackware PC and head back to APIIT.
My colleague Lohita started the Workshop officially with his Welcome speech.
Key note Speech by Dr. Shahani Weerawarana is all about Imagine. It was great. The presentation really touched the entire audience and most of the Business students and Lecturers were inspired by the four letter word FOSS.
Anuradha Ratnaweera was briefing the audience about the freedom to use software and freedom laws. He also briefed on the license used in Free and Open Source Projects.
Bud gave his usual Gadgematic Presentation which inspired many students and able to take away the Negative image of GNU/Linux capabilities.
Rajkumar from Lanka Software Foundation came prepared for the Orange Open Movie Project – Elephants Dream. The short film was projected with surrounding sound system which attracted the most number of Participants.
After having a little break we continued with our speakers from Senid and Red Hat.
Learnt a lot from Red Hat Sanjeewa. It was the most fruitful Q&A Session we had.
I delivered the vote of thanks and Workshop ended around 3.00 pm and it was a great job done by the 2nd year computing guys, organized within a short period of 9 days and leaving out all the project work to be submitted.
Well-done guys, Job Well-done!
Monday, September 11, 2006
APIIT SFD 2006 Handout
Went to apiit in the morning, and distributed the handouts to the staff..Went ok with the computing lecturers and had problems with Business lecturers. For some reason they expect more Public Relation stuff from us which really freaked me out. Apart from this a particular lecturer who has waken from the wrong side of the bed start criticizing the Free Software and its freedom to use. Is he mad I don't know...But majority thinks as it is.. I just wonder what people would have tell to Richard Stallmen and Linus Trovalds when they first came with their talents and ideas.
Went to classrooms in the afternnon to distribute the handouts and we had a good feedback from them, specially there was this BA Lecturer who was overwhelmed with Linux and explains to his class the importance of FOSS and and true contribution towards it. This really helped us to survive in a Business class while explaining all the Computing stuff.
Ilham designed the posters and it was really nice!!
Spoke to the CEO and he was happy with the way things going on..And all this is because APIIT sponsor several students to attend the ApacheCon ASIA 2006 :)
Burnt the first 50 Linux Distributions.. yipeee and another 150 more to go :)
Went to classrooms in the afternnon to distribute the handouts and we had a good feedback from them, specially there was this BA Lecturer who was overwhelmed with Linux and explains to his class the importance of FOSS and and true contribution towards it. This really helped us to survive in a Business class while explaining all the Computing stuff.
Ilham designed the posters and it was really nice!!
Spoke to the CEO and he was happy with the way things going on..And all this is because APIIT sponsor several students to attend the ApacheCon ASIA 2006 :)
Burnt the first 50 Linux Distributions.. yipeee and another 150 more to go :)
Sunday, September 10, 2006
APIIT SFD 2006 WIKI
Now you can access the APIIT SFD 2006 wiki page from;
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka
htthttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka/APIITLanka
http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka
htthttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/asia/SriLanka/APIITLanka
"Crocodile Hunter" Irwin dies
"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, killed in a stingray attack last week, knew the risks involved in his work and often discussed the possibility he might die doing it.
The 44-year-old star was being filmed for a new TV program as he swam with a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef Monday when it lashed out with its tail, plunging a poisonous barb into his chest. He died within minutes.
In the first public comments by Irwin's family since the tragedy, the elder Irwin, who started the wildlife park that his son turned into a major tourist attraction, said Wednesday both were aware of the inherent dangers of their occupation.
The 44-year-old star was being filmed for a new TV program as he swam with a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef Monday when it lashed out with its tail, plunging a poisonous barb into his chest. He died within minutes.
In the first public comments by Irwin's family since the tragedy, the elder Irwin, who started the wildlife park that his son turned into a major tourist attraction, said Wednesday both were aware of the inherent dangers of their occupation.
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Free CDs to be given out during APIIT SFD 2006
Here's the list of CD's which gonna be distributed free...
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
ELIVE
Dyne:bolic
PHLAK
FOSS Goodies (Documents/ED & RMS Videos)
Suse 10.1 DVD
Fedora Core 5 (5CDs)
SimplyMEPIS
MusixGNU-Linux
Friday, September 08, 2006
APIIT LANKA SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2006 - Handout
APIIT LANKA SOFTWARE FREEDOM DAY 2006
(http://www.softwarefreedomday.org)
FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER @ APIIT PREMISES
4TH FLOOR
(http://www.softwarefreedomday.org)
FRIDAY 15th SEPTEMBER @ APIIT PREMISES
4TH FLOOR
What is Free Software?
“Free software”' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free”' as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.”
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
1. The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
2. The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
3. The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
4. The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Software Freedom Day
Software Freedom Day is a global, grassroots effort to educate the public about the virtues and availability of Free and Open Source Software. Local teams from all over the world are organizing events on 16 September 2006.
What is the GNU project?
The GNU Project was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX-like operating system which is free software i.e. the GNU system, by the Free Software Foundation headed by Richard M. Stallman (RMS). Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the kernel called Linux, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as “Linux”, they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
GNU is a recursive acronym for “GNU's Not UNIX”; it is pronounced guh-noo, like canoe. The GNU project was designed to create software and an operating system that would run on peer-edited and improved code, continuing the tradition of software evolution that was already common in the computer science field in the 1970s and early 1980s.
For more information visit: http://www.gnu.org/
Linux
Linux (also known as GNU/Linux) is a Unix-like computer operating system written by a Finnish university student Linus Torvalds while attending the
Initially, Linux was primarily developed and used by individual enthusiasts on personal computers. Since then, Linux has gained the support of major corporations such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, and Novell for use in servers and is gaining popularity in the desktop market. It is used in systems ranging from supercomputers to mobile phones. Proponents and analysts attribute its success to its security, reliability, low cost, and freedom from vendor lock-in.
For more information visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux
Taprobane GNU/Linux
The first ever Linux OS/Distribution developed in
Taprobane is a convenient GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian. It is a live CD, but can be installed to persistent media. Saegiri, the build system used for creating Taprobane ISOs, can also be used to create custom Live CD distributions. Taprobane GNU/Linux is Free Software (Open Source). It's a collective work released under the Artistic License 2.0. Taprobane build system and components are released under the GNU General Public License. Some of the development happens on #taprobane at irc.{debian.org,freenode.net}.
Here are some goodies you may find in this distribution:
Xorg 6.8.2, Official Nvidia driver support out of the box, KDE 3.4.1, OpenOffice 2.0, Linux 2.6.12.4, Squashfs/Unionfs, Apache/PgSQL/MySQL/Zope, started/stopped from the K-menu, Excellent hotplug support, Saving data to persistent media, Educational software such as Stellarium and Octave.
For more information visit: http://taprobane.org/
SAHANA – Lanka Software Foundation (LSF)
Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between Government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves.
Sahana has currently been deployed successfully in the following places:
1. Tsunami - Sri Lanka 2005 - Officially deployed in the CNO for the Government of Sri Lanka
2. AsianQuake - Pakistan 2005 - Officially deployed within with NADRA for the Government of Pakistan
3.
4. Sarvodaya -
5. Terre des Hommes - Sri Lanka 2006 - Deployed with new Child Protection Module
6. Yogjarkata Earthquake - Indonesia 2006 - Deployed by ACS, urRemote and Indonesian whitewater association and Indonesian Rescue Source
7.
Though application of Sahana is the greatest recognition of the value of the Sahana system to help out in disasters, our work also has been recognized in other ways
1. Redhat User Award - Given to the founder of Lanka Software Foundation Dr Sanjiva Weerawarna - 2005
2. Sahana inspired the new Free Software Foundation Award for Humanity - 2005
3. Software 2006,
4. Interview of core team in BBC program "code breakers" - 2006
5. One of the three top finalists in the Health category in Stockholm Challenge - 2006
6. Sourceforge Project of the Month for June 2006
For more information visit: http://sahana.lk, contact via sahana@opensource.lk
Orange Open Movie - Elephants Dream
Elephants Dream is the world’s first open movie, made entirely with open source graphics software such as Blender, and with all production files freely available to use however you please, under a Creative Commons license. The short film (10m 55s) was created by the Orange Open Movie Project studio in
For more information visit: http://orange.blender.org
OrangeHRM - hSenid
OrangeHRM, the first version of a comprehensive Open Source HRM solution. It comes as a free web-enabled application which is easy to install, configure and run. This would be an ideal solution for small and medium sized companies and organizations looking for an inexpensive way to manage and develop their human resources.
OrangeHRM is emerging in line with the new generation of HR Information Systems (HRIS) and will assist you in managing your company's most important asset - human resource. Based on modular architecture, this comprehensive Open Source solution reflects the main areas of HR Management from simple personnel administration to today's complex strategic approaches. OrangeHRM, which is applicable to diverse business industries, is a perfect platform for re-engineering your HR processes and redefining the workflow operations of HR professionals, paving the way to a new level of HR Management.
For more information visit: http://www.orangehrm.com
FREE Linux CDs for each Participant, also win several Linux Distribution CDs by participating the Question and Answer Session. GNU/Linux T-shirts and other Linux Distributions are available at Student’s Request.
Friday 08th 2006 - 6 more days
The APIIT SFD 2006 is steering well. We had our FOSS meeting 2day at the TLC. Everything going smoothly.
We decided not to give Ubuntu or Kubuntu for the APIIT SFD 2006 as we will be getting them free from the LK-LUG, as 1500 CDs gonna be burnt to distribute free of charge during the FOSS Day.
Now we have to think of some other Linux Live CD to be distributed.. Problem again.
Prepared the APIIT SFD 2006 Pre-Advocating Hand out which is to be distributed among the students on Monday.
Exactly 6 more days to go !!
Will add more about this effort as we move along.
We decided not to give Ubuntu or Kubuntu for the APIIT SFD 2006 as we will be getting them free from the LK-LUG, as 1500 CDs gonna be burnt to distribute free of charge during the FOSS Day.
Now we have to think of some other Linux Live CD to be distributed.. Problem again.
Prepared the APIIT SFD 2006 Pre-Advocating Hand out which is to be distributed among the students on Monday.
Exactly 6 more days to go !!
Will add more about this effort as we move along.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Software Freedom Day 2006 @ APIIT
For the First time in APIIT history we are going to celebrate the Software Freedom Day as a FOSS community. This event will be held on 15th Friday where Global SFD will be celebrated in many countries on 16th Saturday. And majority of us will be busy working for the FOSS-SL/LK-LUG SFD2006 at Majestic City, Crescat Boulevard and Excel World.
The organizing is done by a bunch of 2nd year APIIT Students (FOSS enthusiasts and Linux Users) and I will be the General chair to host this event. We were attending so many FOSS events happening around Sri Lanka including FOSS2004, FOSS-ed, FOSS2005, ApacheCon2006 and we never got a chance to organize such an event at our University premises.
Now that we have enough knowledge, skills and contacts we are sure that the event gonna be a success. I was supported by both Lohita and Gunith through thick and thin. Ilham, Asanga, Hasantha, Randika also in the supporting crew.
The Agenda was seemed to be good and we were given the approval from the Head of Computing. The budget was passed by the SAC (Student Activity Club) and we just had our official meeting at the TLC (The Linux Center). Both Ven. Mettavihari and Suchetha helped us and gave marvelous ideas while directing us in the correct path by showing us our mistakes.
Suchetha was overwhelmed and eager to help us. He managed to ring few speakers who were in our Agenda and get them ready for the event immediately.
Ven. Mettavihari handed over some Banners to decorate the place and GNU T-shirts and / TUX soft toys to trade during the event.
We decided to give away 200 free Linux CDs to delegates and we couldn’t come to a conclusion which distributions to be given.
Some suggest we give away Ubuntu and Kubuntu so that delegated can understand the significance in Gnome and KDE. Some suggest not to give neither of them coz they are freely available in the Web. Randika wants to give some Networking/Security/Firewall stuff but it’s not gonna work with majority of BIT and BABA students.
Finally we came with Kubuntu, e-Live, PHLAK and Knoppix or Documentation/Apps. Each distro will have 50 copies and these will give away randomly to delegates. The bottom line is we want them exchange each CD to build friendship and exchange their expertise knowledge on Installation and Trouble Shooting of the Linux Distribution they received.
That’s enough for today and will add more. This is only the start down a long road..I will blog more about this effort as we move along.
The organizing is done by a bunch of 2nd year APIIT Students (FOSS enthusiasts and Linux Users) and I will be the General chair to host this event. We were attending so many FOSS events happening around Sri Lanka including FOSS2004, FOSS-ed, FOSS2005, ApacheCon2006 and we never got a chance to organize such an event at our University premises.
Now that we have enough knowledge, skills and contacts we are sure that the event gonna be a success. I was supported by both Lohita and Gunith through thick and thin. Ilham, Asanga, Hasantha, Randika also in the supporting crew.
The Agenda was seemed to be good and we were given the approval from the Head of Computing. The budget was passed by the SAC (Student Activity Club) and we just had our official meeting at the TLC (The Linux Center). Both Ven. Mettavihari and Suchetha helped us and gave marvelous ideas while directing us in the correct path by showing us our mistakes.
Suchetha was overwhelmed and eager to help us. He managed to ring few speakers who were in our Agenda and get them ready for the event immediately.
Ven. Mettavihari handed over some Banners to decorate the place and GNU T-shirts and / TUX soft toys to trade during the event.
We decided to give away 200 free Linux CDs to delegates and we couldn’t come to a conclusion which distributions to be given.
Some suggest we give away Ubuntu and Kubuntu so that delegated can understand the significance in Gnome and KDE. Some suggest not to give neither of them coz they are freely available in the Web. Randika wants to give some Networking/Security/Firewall stuff but it’s not gonna work with majority of BIT and BABA students.
Finally we came with Kubuntu, e-Live, PHLAK and Knoppix or Documentation/Apps. Each distro will have 50 copies and these will give away randomly to delegates. The bottom line is we want them exchange each CD to build friendship and exchange their expertise knowledge on Installation and Trouble Shooting of the Linux Distribution they received.
That’s enough for today and will add more. This is only the start down a long road..I will blog more about this effort as we move along.
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